Browser game
Game of Dragons
A Game of Thrones themed online board game, built with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Roles
- Design, illustration & development
- Period
- Nov 2019
- Company
- Noroff
- Focus
- JavaScript, Illustration, Game
Brief
Build an online board game themed on Game of Thrones, using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Process
The process covered designing the board game, developing it, testing it and publishing it.
Design
Colours
The palette aims for the mysterious mood the series is known for. Gold in the navigation and illustrations stands for wealth and power; red symbolises danger and blood, which the series has plenty of.
Illustrations
All the icons and illustrations are based on Game of Thrones. The characters were drawn from real images, but given a cartoon look with a black-and-white layer so they’d still be recognisable.
Most illustrations were made from scratch; a few elements were image-traced from reference images.
Prototype
I explored a few designs, mostly around how the path across the board should look, and ended up with something close to this in the final product.
Development
This project was less about design and more about game mechanics. Most of the time went into making the game work using only JavaScript — a lot of frustration, and a lot of new knowledge.